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A new report authored by former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and former Presidential Special Envoy to Sudan Richard S. Williamson examines how to realize the promise of the Responsibility to Protect and more effectively use this tool to prevent genocide and mass atrocities.

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The Center for the Prevention of Genocide asked Andrew Berends, an experienced documentary filmmaker who is in the Nuba Mountains to document the war there for a new film, to share some of his photos and reflections on what he is seeing in this land that has been virtually cut off from outside assistance or eyewitnesses.

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The UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, is urging religious and political leaders in the Middle East and North Africa to refrain from rhetoric that could exacerbate the violence in Syria and incite crimes against civilians.

Today, June 20, marks World Refugee Day 2013, an annual United Nations-designated opportunity to raise awareness of the plight of those displaced due to war, conflict, or persecution throughout the world.

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President Obama announced on Wednesday afternoon that Susan E. Rice will become national security adviser to the Obama administration, replacing Tom Donilon. The President also named Samantha Power, a former National Security Council official, to replace Ms. Rice as American ambassador to the United Nations.

The Center for the Prevention of Genocide asked Andrew Berends, an experienced documentary filmmaker who is in the Nuba Mountains to document the war there for a new film, to share some of his photos and reflections on what he is seeing in this land that has been virtually cut off from outside assistance or eyewitnesses.

The Museum is hosting a panel discussion in New York City featuring Judge Thomas Buergenthal, a survivor of the Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen concentration camps, international jurist and law professor, and Eugenie Mukeshimana, a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide and founder of the Genocide Survivors Support Network.